Vevo.com is up and running. A music video only website, it's a coproduction of several major recording companies and Google. It's also the first time YouTube technology has been used outside YouTube. Back when we were kids, there was a different music video distributor called MTV. The "M" stood for music, and TV was something called "television".

The UCLA Anderson forecast says double digit unemployment will continue in California through 2012, and in fact unemployment will get worse before its gets better. Unemployment nationwide, meanwhile, has already gotten better. This is a particular problem not just for California families, but for Sacramento, which will have to deal with declining revenues. A family can move out of state. A state cannot move out of state.